Quotes About Opportunities

It is not one's surroundings that can help or hinder – it is having a growing purpose in one's life to make the most of whatever is in one's reach. If you have but a few good books, learn those to the very heart of them. Don't for one moment believe that if you had different surroundings and opportunities you would find the upward path any easier to climb. One condition is like another, if you have not the determination and the power to grow in yourself.

MY PEACE is like a shaft of golden Light shining on you continuously. During days of bright sunshine, it may blend in with your surroundings. On darker days, My Peace stands out in sharp contrast to your circumstances. See times of darkness as opportunities for My Light to shine in transcendent splendor.

Do not compare yourself with others who seem to skip along their life-paths with ease. Their journeys have been different from yours, and I have gifted them with abundant energy. I have gifted you with fragility, providing opportunities for your spirit to blossom in My Presence. Accept this gift as a sacred treasure:

In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.

We do not get to choose all of the opportunities that come our way. We do not get to choose our entire path. But we do get to choose what to do with setbacks and opportunities that come our way. We do get to choose how we behave as we wait to know what is coming next. We do get to decide that no matter what happens, we will be ready. Are you willing to have a good attitude even when things aren't going your way? This is the attitude of a winner.

The WWOOF or the Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms is an international program that allows you to travel the world with free food and accommodations in exchange for volunteer work.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

So many boys, so little time.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

I've been very lucky as far as the things that I've picked, and the way they've worked out. I try to pass on stuff that looks like it's gonna be a bad time.

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.